Aleksandra Mir Inspirational Quotes (30)

You pick people, and they pick you sometimes. It's especially great to connect with people you think you have nothing in common with.

Hello is always presented as a linear narrative, a singular chain, sometimes in a loop. But the reality of making it is that connections are naturally sprawling all over the place, so I am free to edit any way I want.

In a way I am saying the nation-state doesn't exist, borders don't exist, you can try going anywhere. It is a kind of pre-Internet consensus I always had in me.

The space program caused so much future-thinking in culture. People who couldn't go to the Moon were building space-fantasy chairs and corsets and hairdos and anything that they could put their hands on.

I'm very jealous of an era where people were inventing something so beautiful as the Concorde and thinking that's the next step. I'm jealous of an era when people thought, Let's finally go to the Moon.

I follow these intimate connections of strangers and, surprise!, end up finding even myself in the work at some point.